CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 December 2004
Product News
OSIsoft To Support Sap's Adaptive Manufacturing Strategy
OSIsoft, Inc. announced a significant enhancement to their eight-year relationship with SAP AG.
OSIsoft has achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaverT certification from SAP, and as part of this certification, will develop its software solutions to support SAP's adaptive manufacturing strategy, announced in Spring 2004. Applications "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" help speed access to enterprise information and represent tighter integration of plant-level manufacturing systems with enterprise applications, facilitated by the SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI), a component of the SAP NetWeaver platform. OSIsoft's real-time performance management platform facilitates condition-based maintenance, supporting real-time inventory updates and a Sales & Operations Planning process.
As the first SAP partners to use Microsoft .NET to achieve "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" certification, OSIsoft continues its software development commitment to open standards and flexible, web-based architectures to ensure efficient portability, efficiency and reduced cost. This commitment realizes the desire of enterprises to adjust strategies, extend supply chains and tighten margins through interoperable platforms to maintain a strategic advantage in their markets.
OSIsoft's Real-time Performance Management business package components, including RtBaseline, RtAnalytics and RtPortal, collectively gather, configure and display relevant real-time information to the SAP NetWeaver platform through OSIsoft's iView software, where it can be transformed and contextualized to address specific business roles within the SAP Enterprise Portal.
SAP XI, which provides open integration among and between SAP solutions and applications from other vendors , together with OSIsoft's numerous certified interfaces, provide the device, data, process, workflow and end-user integration capabilities required to unify plant-level, corporate supply and demand-chain management. The combination of technologies from OSIsoft and SAP creates an adaptive manufacturing organization that can absorb deviations with greater agility and lower costs and significantly reduce risk.
"For the past eight years, OSIsoft and SAP have pooled their collective expertise in business software and real-time manufacturing operations to integrate systems and meet the high fidelity demands of process manufacturers," said Michael Saucier, vice president of marketing, OSIsoft, Inc. "Achieving "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" commitment for enabling manufacturers to achieve maximum value from their operations and business systems through integration of real-time data for access throughout the enterprise, including the ability to monitor deviations on a condition-based maintenance model, as opposed to merely calendar-based or time-based. SAP NetWeaver and SAP XI allow SAP and OSIsoft to better enable corporate, plant and production managers to improve production efficiency, performance, and profitability by transforming and presenting real- time information in business context throughout the enterprise."
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